Posts tagged Screenshots
Google’s Live Spam Screenshots Highlight ‘Useless’ Web Pages
Mar 4th
Google has launched a new website called How Search Works. One feature SEOs may want to check out is the Fighting Spam section, which shares a stream of real examples of “pure spam” pages that Google has identified and removed from search results.
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Google’s iOS Maps App Appears In Leaked Screenshots
Oct 15th
From Ben Guild we get to see some blurry native iOS Google Maps screenshots. We know the app is coming; the questions are: 1) precisely when and 2) will Apple do anything to block it? My guesses would be: 1) within the next month and 2) no. Guild says the mapping app is currently in [...]
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Full-Sized Screenshots of the Google Drive iPad App
Apr 24th
Google Drive launched today, but the iOS version of the app was unexpectedly not ready. Google says it’s almost there, but it won’t launch for “a few weeks.” But Google provided ReadWriteWeb with a bunch of full-size screenshots of the app, so we could know what to expect.
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How to Take Screenshots with an iPad, Plus Editing Images with Photoshop App
Apr 2nd
I am going to explain how to take screenshots with iPads, iPhone and iPods and I am also going to show you how you can edit any image with these Apple products using the Adobe Photoshop Express App. The Adobe Photoshop Express App is outstanding because it allows you to edit images on the go [...]
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Use Your iPad to Scribble on Photos and Screenshots With Skitch For iOS
Dec 23rd
When the much-loved screen shot and image annotation Mac app Skitch was purchased by Evernote a few months ago, an iOS version of the service was said to be forthcoming. Evernote has made good on that promise by launching Skitch for iPad, with an iPhone-friendly version coming soon.
On the iPad, Skitch lets you pull up photos, screenshots and Web pages and annotate them with arrows, shapes, text and lines. It’s a stripped-down offering compared what Skitch can do on the desktop, but for the tablet form factor, it works quite well.
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Many of us here at ReadWriteWeb love to use Skitch to mark up screen shots for some of our stories, but you don’t need to be a tech blogger to get the most of out the service. Everybody from UI designers to executives could use Skitch for iPad to add new ideas and context to images on the go.
The app even has a built in Web browser so you can snap screenshots and scribble on them as needed. Of course, you can always take a screenshot of any site or app on the iPad by simultaneously hitting the home and power buttons on the device. Those images land in your “Photos” collection, which Skitch can then pull from.
In addition to marking up images and maps, you can pull up a blank screen and use Skitch like one of the many digital whiteboard applications we’ve seen. In fact, this application could easily replace most of those offerings while providing a whole slew of handy new features on top of it.
All marked-up images are saved automatically within the app. They can be emailed, saved locally or tweeted out to the world. You can plug in your Evernote account to save things there, but it’s by no means a requirement.
The first iOS app for Skitch comes a few months after the service was acquired by Evernote and subsequently launched an Android app.
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Gimme Bar: Link Saving With Dropbox Integration, Screenshots & an API – If This Doesn’t Work, Maybe Nothing Will
Nov 14th
5 Days of Gimme Bar is what they’re calling it: the extended roll-out of a beautiful new service for saving links of interest from around the web. After nearly two years of development, starting today and for the next five days, San Francisco design firm Fictive Kin is letting new users create accounts on Gimme Bar.
What is it? It’s a visual bookmarking, text snipping, whole web page archiving, public/private link saving and sharing service with Dropbox integration, a (submitted) iPhone app and a developer platform for integrating Gimme Bar features into other applications. It’s pretty remarkable – but is it good enough? The web is full of social bookmarking apps, a lot of people love social bookmarking apps – but not enough of them seem to love it for startups like this to thrive.
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The Long Line of Contenders
Delicious beat a thousand social bookmarking apps to become the king, until it languished inside Yahoo and was drowned in misunderstanding by the YouTube co-founders that bought it this year. StumbleUpon added an element of mystery and drove huge traffic to web publishers. Pinterest looks like it’s cornering a part of the women’s market in fashion and craft bookmarking.
But nobody’s really won over hordes of everyday people to their link saving service, despite countless attempts. Maybe most people don’t really want to save links forever. Maybe the tools have been too unfriendly for non-geeks to use. Those are the dominant theories, anyway.
New services like this launch almost every day, albeit generally with a twist.
Ramy Adee, a key engineer in the creation of Microsoft-acquired $800 million voice platform TellMe recently raised high profile venture capital to build a social bookmarking app called Snip.it. That app lets users save and share links with a special emphasis on their own short editorial comments on the links they share. Adee believes that the future of news consumption lies in social curation with crowdsourced and friend-based commentary and context.
Last month Jori Lallo, a developer at faltering web message board startup Convore relaunched a side project called Kippt. It’s real simple but people loved it for its simplicity.
I’ve been using a service called Pearltrees lately to save my links. Its web interface is Flash and that’s awful but on an iPad it’s a dream come true. It’s a swirling sea of interlinked glassy spheres containing links to articles from around the web. Users can pluck each others’ pearls and put them into trees of their own, subscribing to updates and reading annotations. It’s great – but it will be better when there is an iPhone version and search on the iPad. Pearltrees has convinced me that a good social bookmarking app needs to have a compelling reading and sorting experience on the iPad, because that’s where I do most of my casual and catch-up reading.
I’m pretty satisfied with Pearltrees right now, but Gimme Bar looks strong as well.
As a disclosure, I should mention that I own a small amount of equity in a related service called Iterasi, which archives links for enterprise customers and was a consulting client several years ago.
Can Features Win an App Battle?
All those other social bookmarking apps are cool, but some of Gimme Bar’s new features could well become must-have offerings for any social bookmarking app.
The ability to save all your links up into a cloud storage service that you pay for yourself, in this case Dropbox, is terrific. It’s not a back-up option for power users, or an account deletion option if you decide you don’t like Gimme – it’s just part and parcel of the service. That’s the kind of data portability that honestly every app ought to support.
Giving users the option of saving entire pages on the web as a snap shot image is great. For truly important archives, you don’t want to suffer from link rot. That the archive is an image and not live HTML seems like a nod towards respect for the original publisher, though.
There are little User Experience elements that people may like a lot about Gimme, too. For example, when you find a page or a snippet of text or an image you want to save, you can drag and drop that down to a tray at the bottom of the page separated into either public or private collections. (That’s the Gimme Bar.) When you start typing in a description of the item, if you choose to do so, you don’t have to save the description text when you’re done – you just click out of the pop-up saving box and all your data entered is saved automatically. That’s the way things ought to work.
Finally, Gimme has an API at launch. It clearly aims to build a marketplace of 3rd party applications that read and write from the web using its archiving and sharing technology and its saved content. Give me an integration that grabs all my favorited Tweets (usually on my mobile Twitter client), archives a snapshot of them in Gimme and then pushes them over to a corresponding account in Pearltrees so I can read and organize them with multi-touch on my iPad. Please! That’s just a fantasy but this Gimme Bar to Tumblr integration is real.
Those are just the features rolled out so far, on this the first day of Five Days of Gimme Bar. What will be unveiled (or perhaps just highlighted) over the rest of the week? We’ll have to wait and see.
A lot of people will no doubt love this service, many already do. But will enough people love it for the service to thrive? Gimme has already hired one sales person, according to the company’s LinkedIn page. Launching with monetization in mind from the start is smart. It’s not clear whether it’s the application platform, private bookmarking, or perhaps corporate use and archiving that will be monetized.
In the meantime, if social bookmarking, link and media saving and sharing is ever going to catch on – the feature rich experience being built over at Gimme Bar seems like as strong a contender as I’ve seen yet. Hopefully all kinds of other applications will be built on top of and connected to it and hopefully its Dropbox integration will make all kinds of people feel safe and secure using it for saving important content.
If Gimme Bar doesn’t work, then I’m not sure what is going to win the hearts of a large number of social bookmarking service users.
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United Pilots Get iPads [Video; Screenshots]
Aug 23rd
United Airlines has announced it is converting to paperless flight decks and deploying 11,000 iPads to all United and Continental pilots. This is yet another sign that tablets – and in particular Apple’s iPad – are changing the way people access and interact with content. We’ve already extensively covered how iPads have impacted the magazine and newspaper industries, but nowadays it’s even more interesting to track how iPads are impacting non-content industries.
United is labeling the iPad manual an "electronic flight bag" (EFB). It will completely replace paper flight manuals for all pilots by the end of this year. In addition, the pilots will use an iPad app to replace paper aeronautical navigational charts. Below we check out a short video of what United pilots will see, plus some screenshots.
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The iPads will come loaded with Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck, which United calls "the industry’s premier app featuring interactive, data-driven enroute navigation information and worldwide geo-referenced terminal charts."
Here’s a quick video showing Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck in action, followed by a few screenshots to give you a flavor of the app. This is what United pilots will see on their iPads.
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Jan 12th
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Live Blogging The Facebook Messages / Email Event – With Screenshots!
Nov 15th
Today, Facebook is widely expected to announce that it is offering email to its members. Will that be the case? We’ll all find out soon enough. I’ll be live blogging the Facebook event that begins at 10am Pacific Time. Also see our expanded piece: How The New Facebook Messages &…
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